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<blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 2832815" data-attributes="member: 22882">DragonMech (Goodman Games) is a very unusual, compelling setting.&nbsp; Imagine &quot;Rocks fall, everyone dies&quot; was turned into the premise for a standard D&amp;D setting rather than the a fate reserved PCs.&nbsp; Now imagine it was changed to &quot;rocks fall, everyone dies - with mecha!&quot; and you have the basics.&nbsp; Except it's played straight.&nbsp; Lots of great fluff and crunch in the core book alone, and a nice range of supplements if you're looking for more.The Iron Kingdoms (Privateer Press) is, as mentioned before, a grim, gritty steampunk setting in every sense of the phrase, although PP doesn't like said phrase. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />&nbsp; It has even better fluff than DragonMech, but the crunch is... questionable.&nbsp; Privateer is the true heir to 2e TSR (but with a really fine miniatures game and, presumably, better management): a great setting, beautiful illustration, good writing, a strong (and much better than TSR's) metaplot and, oh, yeah, this is supposed to be a GAME, isn't it?Mindshadows (Green Ronin) is a nice little softcover peripherally related to the Freeport setting.&nbsp; It's essentially fantasy India in the Kara-Tur/Rokugan tradition of &quot;like the historical setting, but different.&quot;&nbsp; It's a very psionics-focused setting that, unfortunately, requires some minor updates to 3.5 due to the much-improved psionics rules, but it's otherwise 3.5-compatible and comes with its own extremely high-quality monster book (Monsters of the Mind).Nyambe (Atlas Games) is to Africa what Mindshadows is to India or Kara-Tur to the orient - a fantasy veneer with standard D&amp;D races 'gone native.'&nbsp; It's 3.0 and hard to find, and the crunch problems of the Iron Kingdoms are also present here, but like Mindshadows it's a great setting covering something you don't often see.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoogleEmpMog, post: 2832815, member: 22882"] DragonMech (Goodman Games) is a very unusual, compelling setting. Imagine "Rocks fall, everyone dies" was turned into the premise for a standard D&D setting rather than the a fate reserved PCs. Now imagine it was changed to "rocks fall, everyone dies - with mecha!" and you have the basics. Except it's played straight. Lots of great fluff and crunch in the core book alone, and a nice range of supplements if you're looking for more. The Iron Kingdoms (Privateer Press) is, as mentioned before, a grim, gritty steampunk setting in every sense of the phrase, although PP doesn't like said phrase. :confused: It has even better fluff than DragonMech, but the crunch is... questionable. Privateer is the true heir to 2e TSR (but with a really fine miniatures game and, presumably, better management): a great setting, beautiful illustration, good writing, a strong (and much better than TSR's) metaplot and, oh, yeah, this is supposed to be a GAME, isn't it? Mindshadows (Green Ronin) is a nice little softcover peripherally related to the Freeport setting. It's essentially fantasy India in the Kara-Tur/Rokugan tradition of "like the historical setting, but different." It's a very psionics-focused setting that, unfortunately, requires some minor updates to 3.5 due to the much-improved psionics rules, but it's otherwise 3.5-compatible and comes with its own extremely high-quality monster book (Monsters of the Mind). Nyambe (Atlas Games) is to Africa what Mindshadows is to India or Kara-Tur to the orient - a fantasy veneer with standard D&D races 'gone native.' It's 3.0 and hard to find, and the crunch problems of the Iron Kingdoms are also present here, but like Mindshadows it's a great setting covering something you don't often see. [/QUOTE]

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